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Nexus 7 For The Elderly

An elderly relative of mine shall be getting herself a Nexus 7 tomorrow, which she plans to use mainly for e-Reading plus a bit of media usage in the form of BBC iPlayer. I was looking for an easy-to-use interface for her. Any launcher recommendations or simple customisations to make it just a little bit easier? I am sure she could use it as is, but making it easier so I don't have to teach her so much will be good.

How elderly? Talk back might be nifty. I tried it once, it was annoying as hell though
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wiithepeng said:
How elderly? Talk back might be nifty. I tried it once, it was annoying as hell though
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Instructions are poor. You get a quick startup guide on paper and then have to open the book section to read the user manual. I find it harder to learn about a system when I an constantly flipping from the manual to a page to try out what I was reading.

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How elderly? Talk back might be nifty. I tried it once, it was annoying as hell though
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I was more just on about launchers which would allow her to have a nice, clean UI that isn't too cluttered.

Anyone know of such a launcher?

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Instructions are poor. You get a quick startup guide on paper and then have to open the book section to read the user manual. I find it harder to learn about a system when I an constantly flipping from the manual to a page to try out what I was reading.
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Sorry, it was just merely a suggestion as I did not know what he needed.
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wiithepeng said:
Sorry, it was just merely a suggestion as I did not know what he needed.
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Well, thanks anyway.

Brad387 said:
Well, thanks anyway.
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No problem. The only launcher that might suit your needs would be a heavily customized apex launcher.
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wiithepeng said:
No problem. The only launcher that might suit your needs would be a heavily customized apex launcher.
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Thanks. I can install Apex on my Galaxy Note, so I'll fiddle around and see what I can do on it.

Just empty the desktop from every single icon . Than..
1.on home screen Add icons that this person will use the most e.g BBC iPlayer (not sure bits going to work without flash), chrome, play store and a nice looking clock widget or something
2. Set each other screen with categories e.g one for books where you place the appropriate widgets and icons . One for videos and one for whatever else like notes calendar and other productivity ....
3. Do that person a favour and download some games .. yes games . You'd be surprised how often older people like to play ... ideal games would be mahjong, card games , also things like Bejeweled ,Zuma, scrabble type games
Stock android launcher is good enough trust me you just have to know how to organise it. Also wait for chameleon that might change things
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Nexus Soft Keys

Is there any way to replace the nav bar with the Nexus 7's nav bar. I have a kindle fire hd 7 ".

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Is there any way to replace the nav bar with the Nexus 7's nav bar. I have a kindle fire hd 7 ".
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I want this too

I have a Kindle Fire 2 and I would also love to do this if anyone knows how!

Anyone want to try honeybar? Unfortunately, I have the inbred cousin to you all with the KF2, so I can't really do much and my statusbar is broken altogether. It doesn't work on my KF2, but a lot doesn't, and I was going to use that one app once it was ROMd but maybe you can try it out and let me know how it goes? It's the best solution I have anyways....better than nothing right?

Yeah, Id really love to have this for my 8.9.

i got to change softkey apk and themed it, see if it work for 8.9 or 2, because in the 7" hd work
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NH2G said:
Is there any way to replace the nav bar with the Nexus 7's nav bar. I have a kindle fire hd 7 ".
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I did this in my kfhd7 and made the video for persano an a few others xdaers who asked he said he didn't understand it I think do to a language barrier but someone else said the had no probe following it so give it a try give me some feedback if I need to fix it I will but if it's good d enuff I am extremely busy with work any whooo check out our like it give me thanks and subscribe to my channel so I can continue to grow and do more videos
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You didn't understand my vid but now your helping other people so how'd u figure it out then
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I did this in my kfhd7 and made the video for persano an a few others xdaers who asked he said he didn't understand it I think do to a language barrier but someone else said the had no probe following it so give it a try give me some feedback if I need to fix it I will but if it's good d enuff I am extremely busy with work any whooo check out our like it give me thanks and subscribe to my channel so I can continue to grow and do more videos
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persano said:
dont understand nothing, only a bit, so i figured my self and see it worked
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The video is clear enough. You should grasp it right away. Be thankful instead of talking nonsense.
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jailuis said:
The video is clear enough. You should grasp it right away. Be thankful instead of talking nonsense.
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i m not no sence, i saw it in my tab, with hd and without it, i understanded, but, i saw bad the video, the letters were wrong, the light or were or what recorded the video, dont know how to explain this in english. obiusly i saw it, not very clear but understood, some thi g were figured myself, i though some thing were bad but they werent
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techdeisel said:
I did this in my kfhd7 and made the video for persano an a few others xdaers who asked he said he didn't understand it I think do to a language barrier but someone else said the had no probe following it so give it a try give me some feedback if I need to fix it I will but if it's good d enuff I am extremely busy with work any whooo check out our like it give me thanks and subscribe to my channel so I can continue to grow and do more videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyp...aMorph will automatically scale it :confused:
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Protomartyr said:
Thanks for the video! It was a little hard to see text in the video, but I understood quite fine by just listening to the audio.
Do you know where I can find the image files for the Nexus 7 soft keys? I am not sure if we need a specific image size, or if NinjaMorph will automatically scale it
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that was my problem, i dont saw well words
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Your themed navbar is great. Is there a way to make the background transparent? Thanks.
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Protomartyr said:
Thanks for the video! It was a little hard to see text in the video, but I understood quite fine by just listening to the audio.
Do you know where I can find the image files for the Nexus 7 soft keys? I am not sure if we need a specific image size, or if NinjaMorph will automatically scale it
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Yeah I sure do thanks to u and the other user's who for the feedback o the video bit he good and bad I will be editing and possibly redoing and adding things to it and my channel going to be all about the kfhd7 and the lg optimus g att version I will also make a thread for this if anyone has time and wants to help me get that together there welcome and I would appreciate it as o said I am very busy with work but very much want to give back to the community that has given me so much any way here is a good collection of icons http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1413582but as far a as I know u can use any u want long as they are .PNG also in the edit option I show in the video you can resize the image and your welcome and please like my vid subscribe to my channel and shoot me a thanks if u see fit and I helped u
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Also here is a shot of what I am using now just need something for the fav button
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Yeah I sure do thanks to u and the other user's who for the feedback o the video bit he good and bad I will be editing and possibly redoing and adding things to it and my channel going to be all about the kfhd7 and the lg optimus g att version I will also make a thread for this if anyone has time and wants to help me get that together there welcome and I would appreciate it as o said I am very busy with work but very much want to give back to the community that has given me so much any way here is a good collection of icons http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1413582but as far a as I know u can use any u want long as they are .PNG also in the edit option I show in the video you can resize the image and your welcome and please like my vid subscribe to my channel and shoot me a thanks if u see fit and I helped u
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used the same thread
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BELASCO said:
Your themed navbar is great. Is there a way to make the background transparent? Thanks.
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dont know how
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Trying to figure that out now
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Easy (I dit it) in draw able-nodpi folder, edit softkeybarexpanded_bg_land.9 and softkeybarexpanded_bg.9 that'll let you change colors or (if you edit them to have no color) be transparent.
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Yeah that's the part I dont get what color is transparent and is there a image editor I can do this with on the kindle
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I did it in PS.. Just delete the colors or ser transparecy to 0
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[Q] start development

hi .
I wanna start developing apps . does anybody know what languages should I know ? I mean C or C# or Java or .... ?
could you tell me ?
Thanks in advanced .

torpedo mohammadi said:
hi .
I wanna start developing apps . does anybody know what languages should I know ? I mean C or C# or Java or .... ?
could you tell me ?
Thanks in advanced .
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for apps, java definitely.
just get the android sdk and eclipse and get to writing.

just java you mean ?

torpedo mohammadi said:
just java you mean ?
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Just Java means
Java Programming Language
Or in just a word
Java
printf("random signature because I have got nothing else in my mind right now");

Yes Java is the main Language for apps.
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If you have never programed before, check out MIT App Inventor. Great program.
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Take a look at this series of "How To's", made here on XDA by Adam Outler

TonyStark said:
Take a look at this series of "How To's", made here on XDA by Adam Outler
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Also found on xda-university. But yes, you are going to need to get thirsty to read. Then learn how to use that knowledge to make something. If you need help there are plenty of android development mailing lists and forums out there, including the ones here on xda.
The guides by Adam are pretty good! I also recommend them.
There is also MIT OpenCourseWare and tons of other things you'll find if you google around enough.

Guys.... Which is easy to develop... A game or app?
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ariftwister said:
Guys.... Which is easy to develop... A game or app?
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It depends on the complexity of either. You can make them as simple or as difficult as you wish.

Thats cool if everybody make own apps.. And share..
But learning java language for noob like me it take a year
Sorry for bad english
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I went out and got several books on JAVA and Android development to get myself started. I finally decided that if I worry about how long it will take to learn, I will never even start.
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EvolutionHybrid said:
Thats cool if everybody make own apps.. And share..
But learning java language for noob like me it take a year
Sorry for bad english
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Not at all.
Having made a few apps myself, I can say this for sure : all you need is maybe a week or two. Android app development needs java and XML. The XML part is pretty easy and can be learnt on the go. The java part, well if you know data types, functions syntaxes and commands syntax, it's sufficient to make a basic app
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Learning java

What books or pages of Internet do you recommend me? (if it's in spanish better but it doesn't care me if it's in English)

Go to the new Boston tuts on YouTube
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Check Head First Java book if you want to have a hard copy you can check any time

Are you using that to learn java? Is working for you?
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In Spanish i use Oracle Java 7, it's great

Get all the documentation you need, on line straight from the horse's mouth.
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/index.html
Sun originally developed Java, before Oracle bought them out.
The "Java resources" panel to the right contains some pretty useful stuff.
Like C# and the .NET framework, Java has thousands of objects you can use, to the point of almost total confusion.
You will need to keep one eye on the API definitions, unless you have a specific IDE that is aware of the version that you are trying to code, and can prompt you for the parameters to methods etc.
It is currently only in English, Chinese or Japanese.
Tutorials: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/index.html

Bruceeckel.com. the best
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IMO it would be better to buy a book that teaches Java... it is not a simple language so you'll have to study it very hard

Use roseindia website. Java mentals and genious group there. All tutorials are there.
Use console dont use IDE for beginning. Good luck.
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Also this site here is great! I've taken a look at it and it teaches the basis of the language, very well done.
https://www.udemy.com/java-tutorial/

Google is my master for programming.
Sounds cheesy, but I am serious. I usually look for ebooks and youtube tutorials through google. I think someone above has already suggested this, but boston tuts is great. Other than that, I use stackoverflow for any questions i have. they are a very professional community that is able to provide very clear and detailed answers to any problem you are having.
Just make sure that you program while you learn. Just watching 3 hours of youtube tutorials will not help you. You will definitely have to spend a considerable amount of time actually writing programs and debugging them(80% of that time will be you banging your head on the keyboard : P )

Stackoverflow good for android too. Main is usage of our own brains. Even oracle may not help in many cases.
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codeguru and codeproject have a java section, there are many exemples and tutorial

Thanks for the recommendations

Can you guys tell me if I want to start android programming what knowledge should I have ? I know Java is important & guessing XML is good to know too .Anything else guys ?
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arsal_93 said:
Can you guys tell me if I want to start android programming what knowledge should I have ? I know Java is important & guessing XML is good to know too .Anything else guys ?
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it depends on which part of android you want to develop java is a very small part of android, basically apps... xml is pretty much everywhere... but i would recommend to study C because you need it for kernels and many other stuffs

Look I am not interested in kernel right now but want to develop apps & port mods too ? Any idea what I should focus on ?
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arsal_93 said:
Look I am not interested in kernel right now but want to develop apps & port mods too ? Any idea what I should focus on ?
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Java it is.
But learning C won't be a time waster because its the kindergarten class when a student wants to become a programmer. But for the sake, learning Java is more than enough to develop apps.

coolsandie said:
Java it is.
But learning C won't be a time waster because its the kindergarten class when a student wants to become a programmer. But for the sake, learning Java is more than enough to develop apps.
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Thanks for the advice but I also want to know if you can give me advice on how to port mod ?
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arsal_93 said:
Thanks for the advice but I also want to know if you can give me advice on how to port mod ?
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Can't, because honestly I don't have a clue. Google is your friend.

how to create apps

hi guys, what things i need to create app and what is the instruction... im newbie here at xda university
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Renz29 said:
hi guys, what things i need to create app and what is the instruction... im newbie here at xda university
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this is literally everything you need to start the setup process for eclipse is kinda outadated but is straing forward read the android developers website and everything is there and youtube will be our friend
Building first app
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Thanks for the links psycho. just came across this thread and got my curiousity

Thanks bro...
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Also go to thenewboston.com and under his tutorials he has 200 videos about android developement. Hope this helps
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this is literally everything you need to start the setup process for eclipse is kinda outadated but is straing forward read the android developers website and everything is there and youtube will be our friend
Building first app
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I as well am just entering the world of developing. I have never used java or any code for that matter. Ive read alot and id like to start modifiying or porting small android apps and widgets. I have as far as i know, everything required (android sdk, jde, eclipse..) but im still somewhat in the dark about decompiling, changing content and eventually recompiling. Any tips for a Newbie making his way?
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Seen n interested carry on

Thankz
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Also go to thenewboston.com and under his tutorials he has 200 videos about android developement. Hope this helps
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It was where I started... Very good tutorials.
Google developers has also good information...

Thanks for your video tut, as i am trying to find those such kind of tut a long and now finally i got it in this forum. Thanx again
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What programming language shud i learn for developing android app ........i dnt have any knowledge about proggramming ...i jst knw c programming.....so what shud i start wid??? Plz help shud i learn java first n thn start learning abt android development ???
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Think im gonna give this a shot n see how i fair.
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Ichigo said:
First, learn English.
Then, for android development, learn java.
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Lmfaoooo
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Thanks! It is good guide.

Is there any easy way to make a PDF book into an apk?

crashpsycho said:
this is literally everything you need to start the setup process for eclipse is kinda outadated but is straing forward read the android developers website and everything is there and youtube will be our friend
Building first app
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Thank you very much.